Metadata: Footwear Industry Svit, s. p., Zlín
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives of Zlín
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Zlín
- Postal address:
- Klečůvka-zámek, 763 11 Želechovice nad Dřevnicí
- Phone number:
- +420 577 901 152
- Web address:
- www.mza.cz/zlin
- Email:
- soka_zlin@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 3163
- Title:
- Footwear Industry Svit, s. p., Zlín
- Title (official language):
- Obuvnický průmysl Svit, s. p., Zlín
- Creator/accumulator:
- Baťa, Ltd. Zlín; Svit, Gottwaldov
- Date(s):
- 1945/1990
- Date note:
- (1923) 1945/1990 (2000)
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Polish
- Serbian
- English
- Spanish; Castilian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 397.48 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains documents on the operation of the Svit Company. Information on Jews can be found in individual documents concerning previous activities of the companies of the Baťa Group and also with the previous activities of companies that were incorporated into the national company Baťa/Svit in the years 1947–1949. These are mainly restitutions claimed after the war:
Herschmann, Benešov: owners perished, the factory was handed over to a German named Panzer, after the war it was incorporated into the national enterprise Baťa, restitution costs claimed from the heirs 1945–1965.
Rudolf Panzer, Benešov tannery: under pressure, the factory was sold by the owner, F. Herschmann, who perished with his family, 1948–1949.
Restitution of the Armada Potash Factory in Mnichovo Hradiště: the owners were forced to hand over the company, 1949.
Restitution of Evelína, Max and Valtr Brief: the factory under the national administration of the national company Baťa, the Gottwaldov Precision Engineering Works since 1950, the owners perished, restitution was claimed by a British national 1949–1950.
Case of O Baumann against the Derby-Obé Company: the owner emigrated to the USA before the Nazi occupation, after the war he asked for the returning of his property 1949–1953.
Restitution of Pikra Company in Prague: a request for the return of Jewish property, the owner illegally left the Czech lands in 1939, 1950–1953.
Purchase of a house in Vienna by Beag Baťa Company during the war (originally Jewish property), restitution claimed by the American occupation administration 1946–1952.
Investigation of property: lost paintings and other valuables of the Jewish factory owner Salus from Prague, 1960.
Purchase contracts: among others, details of the management and board of directors of the Plunder and Pollak Company in Litoměřice, these are mostly Jews who perished; confirmation from the Council of Jewish Religious Communities in Prague 1949–1950;
Correspondence of Chalupa, the economic director: among others, with the bank regarding the cancellation of guarantees of the former employees of Baťa Company, a.s., who went abroad before 1939 (Jews), changing inclusion of disputed confiscations, documents for individual confiscations (Derby-Obé, Plunder and Pollak, J. Schmidt, Eg-Gü, Voko) 1949–1951;
Nationalised Economy Fund - receivables of Baťa Company: among others, the claims of Siegfried Meisl from Canada (the former head of Baťa Company, a. s., Zlín) and Finkelstein from Argentina for personal accounts and housing facilities, their property was confiscated by the Gestapo, 1938–1966.
- Archival history:
- In the post-war years, documents were stored in the registries of the Svit Company. The Svit Company archives (founded in 1960) managed the archive material of its predecessor - the Baťa Company and its subsidiaries - and the companies incorporated into the Svit Company in 1947–1949. In 2003, the archive material was taken over by the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno, where its part is still stored. The Baťa, a. s., Zlín archive fonds and other archive files were transferred to the Zlín State District Archives in 2012.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1945, national administrators were appointed to the Baťa Company, a. s. In the same year, the Baťa company was nationalised by a decree of the Ministry of Industry. On 1 January 1949, the name was changed to Svit. Various Czechoslovak leather factories were incorporated into the company. At first, it was managed together with 25 other companies by the General Directorate of the Czechoslovak Leather and Rubber Works. In the years 1951–1958, the company was managed by the central administration of the Ministry of Light Industry. On December 1, 1990, the state-owned enterprise was abolished and replaced by the Footwear Industry Svit, a joint-stock company based in Zlín.
- Access points: locations:
- Benešov
- Litoměřice
- Mnichovo Hradiště
- Prague
- Vienna
- Zlín
- Access points: persons/families:
- Baumann, O
- Brief, Evelína
- Brief, Max
- Brief, Valtr
- Chalupa
- Finkelstein
- Herschmann, F
- Meisl, Siegfried
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided as follows: I. Management, II. Employees, III. Technical Department, IV. Production; V. Trade, VI. Economics, VII. Promotion, VIII. Contemporary documentation: newspaper clippings.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Renata Řehová, Obuvnický průmysl – Svit, s. p., Zlín (1923) 1945–1990 (2000), rks., ev.č. [call number] 3342. Inventář, 2008.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey